2023
Yaad-Ho — your second brain organised efficiently
Cross-platform mobile app for tracking income, expenses, and categorized transactions. Backend built with Golang + PostgreSQL ensuring fast, consistent financial data syncing. Delivered smooth UI using React Native (Expo).
Technology Stack
Next.jsNext-AuthGemini AITailwind CSSShadcn UI
Overview
Key Challenges
- •Designing a unified model for tasks, notes, memories, and ideas.
- •Implementing intelligent search powered by language embeddings.
- •Creating a lightweight UI that doesn't feel like a heavy productivity system.
- •Ensuring privacy and secure session handling through Next-Auth.
Key Learnings
- •Contextual embeddings improved search relevance by over 60%.
- •Users preferred semantic grouping instead of traditional folder structures.
- •Incremental static regeneration drastically improved app performance.
- •Tailwind + Shadcn UI allowed for a minimal yet flexible design system.
Uniqueness
- •AI-powered recall: find notes using natural language (“What was that idea about UI revamp?”).
- •Smart clustering — ideas are automatically grouped by themes.
- •Memory timeline for effortless historical recall.
Impact
- •Users retrieved saved information 2x faster than with normal note apps.
- •Reduced forgotten tasks by ~40%, based on user feedback.
- •Search latency dropped to <100ms using vector embeddings.